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Iran's UN speech 'blatant anti-Semitism' -Germany
27 Sep 2008 00:36:09 GMT
 Source: Reuters
UNITED NATIONS, Sept 26 (Reuters) - Germany's foreign minister on Friday blasted the Iranian president's speech at the U.N. General Assembly as "blatant anti-Semitism" and urged the 192 U.N. member states to join in condemning it.

On Tuesday, Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad railed against "Zionist murderers" and dwelled on what he described as Zionist control of international finance.

"The statements of the Iranian president about Israel are irresponsible and unacceptable," German Foreign Minister Frank-Walter Steinmeier told the General Assembly.

"The blatant anti-Semitism of his speech this year was intolerable and demands our mutual condemnation," he said.

The Iranian president has previously said that Israel should be wiped off the map.

Earlier on Friday, U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice told a U.N. Security Council meeting on Israel and the Palestinians that the council should take up the issue of Ahmadinejad's comments about the Jewish state.

British Foreign Secretary David Miliband told the same council meeting that "we will all have seen and must deplore the egregiously offensive comments of President Ahmadinejad."

Israel's President Shimon Peres said on Tuesday Ahmadinejad's comments echoed the "Protocols of the Elders of Zion," an anti-Semitic tract from the early 1900s that purported to show a Jewish and Masonic plot to take over the world. It has since been exposed as a hoax.

After World War Two, Germany has made a point of condemning anti-Semitism because of its own Nazi past. (Reporting by Louis Charbonneau; editing by Mohammad Zargham)


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